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AnÅthekrypta, or, Glorious mysteries wherein the grand proceedings betwixt Christ and the soule ... : is clearly laid open ... / by S.M., minister of the Gospel of God.
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Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.
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behold his last greatest and approaching change and dissolution 'T is a blessed thing to be able to graspe Christ and death in the armes at once at one and the same time and is' t not an everlasting curse to die Christlesse Search the Scriptures and you 'l find it so Finally let the Lord perswade Vse you to bee endeared to Jesus Christ ever set him in your sight looke up to him who looks downe towards you for he 's the Author and finisher of your graces would you know the usefulnesse of such right apprensions of Christ then consider these things sincerelie First 't will increase inward Joy Have you a mind to be merrie be much in this and 't will make you right glad other mirth may end in mourning but this cannot this makes the spirit rejoyce in God its Saviour as she said there are many Joy-makers as friends estates the treasures and pleasures of this life the Scriptures tell you of a joy of harvest and a Joy of heart a Joy of harvest is verie great but this brings joy Isa 9. 3. 65. 14. of heart both great and good a cordiall Joy Precious soules sow precious seed weeping but a precious Christ being the fruit they reap their crop singing some sow in teares weeping mourning sighing roaring wailing after this dearest Lord and Jesus but when they find him themselves are found to reape in joy Righteous ones what though as the Spouse you have gone about Cant. 3. seeking him whom your soules love even earlie and late by night as well as day and have long desir'd societie with him yet have not found him and your selves in him Consider he seekes as well as you ha's lost as well as you besides when hee finds you and you him you 'l hold him fast and so good is he you 'l not let him goe Christ told the Jewes that Abraham rejoyced to see his day did see it and was glad And sensuall worldlings Ioh. 8. 56. what e're you deeme of such a favour it skills not sure I am that a right sight of Christ will make a right-sighted Christian glad at heart nothing do's him so much good as this small things cause laughter in the face when the heart 's a stranger to the Joy but this as 't is the nature of great things will make the heart glad even then when the face of a man and face of times is verie sad the comforts arising hence are meat for Saints to eat which the world knowes not of and now a word to you that would glorie in something what can be your glorie which shall not bee your shame besides the knowledge of Jesus Christ God ha's said The wise man may not glorie in his wisdome neither Isa 9. 23 24. Jer. 9.23 24. the mighty man in his might nor yet the rich man in his riches Why who shall glorie then and in what shall men glorie if not in such desireable things well Jehovah hath said Let him that glorieth glorie in this that he understandeth and knoweth mee that I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindnesse Judgement and Righteousnesse on the Earth for in these things I delight God ha's shew'd you what to glorie in gracious spirits 't is in your acquaintance with him when you know and understand him aright see him as he is viz. full of loving-kindnesse Judgement and Righteousnesse one that acts as he is 't is his delight to doe such things Beleevers are you like him by looking upon him are you changed in this respect Marke well what it is you glorie delight and take pleasure in Secondly 't will strengthen patience under the crosse and chastizement for Christ doe you suffer from the hands of unreasonable men and would you be avenged of them as of your enemies looking up to Christ you 'l find he 's not yet aveng'd of his enemies do's God suffer shall not man does the head endure the contradiction of sinners against himselfe and can the members think to be free Is' t not all reason in the world that head and members should bee fellow-sharers in the sufferings of the whole bodie mysticall who dare denie it 't was a sweet saying of a faithfull witnesse to the truth of Jesus who seem'd to faint under his great triall and being offer'd a cup of spirits to sustaine him replied thus My Lord and Master had gall and vinegar given him as if he had been astonied to see himselfe fare better then Christ and indeed experienc'd Christians when you thinke in sufferings you are served ill you should consider sweet Christ was not served so well that will still your murmurings for can you suffer as much as hee ha's done I tell you nay yet farther do's the event or end of things bring cares upon you why James commands you by the Spirit to behold and see the end Iames 5. 11. of the Lord. You may thinke your troubles will end ill have an evill end but God can put a good end to ill beginnings as some things may be sweet to the taste yet bitter in the bellie so other things may be unsavorie in the first concoction which may be better in and by the second though in things naturall or corporall it is not so as Physitians have said CHAP. II. Of right Regeneration FAlne man's rising is graduall first by Grace and next by Glorie by man came the maladie and by man also comes the remedie a fruit lesse first birth may be repair'd by a second by Adam sinne entered and reigned unto death and by Adam grace entered reigning unto life 't is the second Adam that now I meane Grace can make up what nature ha's lost amend what nature hath done amisse First birth's priviledge is nothing Second birth's priviledge is all things all in all referring to felicitie Regeneration antecedes Glorification He that 's borne but once dies twice but he that 's borne twise shall not taste of the second death First-births are an Embleme of the second ther 's a certaine likenesse betwixt them both we 'l give you a hint of the whole thus FIrst naturall births bring sufferings both on the bearer and on that which is born the mother ha's her pangs and thro's and the child 's in straites too till it 's brought from the womb into the world spirituall births bring sufferings also the Spirit that brings forth is a sufferer too as well as doer it being quenched Spirituall Christians you can tell that you have often quenched the holy Spirit even in all its motions strivings and contestations within you Have not you when the Spirit ha's diswaded from evili and perswaded to good neglected its sweetest motions how seldome have you moved with the Spirit against the flesh and for the Lord aske your hearts this question obedient sonnes of God where almost is that man or woman that 's kind to the Spirit gives it good entertainment Ah Lord thy Spirit meets with hardest measure
can God will have the disposing of it in love You see then heavenly Inhabitants you are not this worlds children that the house you must put on is a house from Heaven immortalitie everlasting life 2 Cor. 5. 2. and this is that home the Lord would have you groane earnestly for that you may be cloath'd therewith Fourthly he 's a stranger who ha's double duties and burthens laid upon him because he 's not a peculiar native of that Countrie where hee dwells such are Saints while in the bodie and dwelling here for they have burthens of their owne to beare and they also beare the burthens of other men First of their owne they have that made burthensome to them which is not made so to others to earthlie men sinne is their burthen both the sinnes of themselves and others though God ha's laid the iniquitie of Saints on his Sonne that they shall never be their burthen hereafter and that themselves shall never feele their weight for future yet ha's hee made their weight heavie to them whilest in the bodie My iniquities are gone over my head and are a burthen too heavie for me The good man could not stand under the burthen when the crie of his crime was ascended on high and tells you he ha's no rest in his bones nor soundnesse in his flesh by reason of his sinne That he 's troubled with it and bowed downe greatly that it makes him goe mourning all the day long What though 't is better to feele their pressures here than lie under them in Hell yet in that they are a burthen to Saints here and not to sinners it demonstrates them strangers in this world For men of this world find not sinne ponderous in them they can swallow it downe without any the least dislike checke or curbe given to it But sinners what though you 're incensible now you shall find your sense of feeling hereafter I can guesse at your diseases suffering grieves you more than sinning sinne is your Heaven such as 't is if not what means your complaining and crying out of the one but not of the other Secondly burthens of others the sinne that others feele not because 't is in them as its proper place even that I say makes the Saints know sorrow A righteous soule 's vexed fretted sadded from day to day whilest hee 2 Pet. 1.8 heares sees and observes the unlawfull deeds of men and 't was such a trouble to the Prophet that rivers of waters ran downe his eyes for the breach of the Law viz. abundance of teares shedd he for other mens sinnes whereas alas in this age men are seldome seen to weep for their owne sins Oh England thy people grow in knowledge but not in practise they 're all for speculation Many of thy people know sin but few there are who have a heart to sorrow for sinne I le tell thee thy disease thou art Judgement sad but not sinne sad Joy ha's so much transported some whether headie or heartie let experience speake that there 's little growth of other graces found Faith Love Patience Meeknesse Gentlenesse Mercifulnesse and Brotherlie kindnesse are rarities in these tottering times Ah Lord what will the end of these things be English Atheists must Saints beare your burthen here what then why you shall bear 't your selves hereafter ungratefull hearts you have melting Prophets whose soules weepe in secret places for your pride whose eyes weepe sore and runne down with teares on your behalfe such strangers have burden enough and more then they can beare did not God lay help on one that 's mightie they have burdens of suffering too Both their owne and others the Saints have many reall feares sorrowes sufferings fightings and smitings within which the children of this world feele not many sower morsells and many a bitter cup which others taste not of is not this to be us'd like a stranger what feares of falling cares of standing desires of beleeving living and loving the Lord Jesus are there found in them that are not elsewhere and are there any sorrowes like to theirs Children of this world are safe in the hands of Satan who acts them and workes in them hence they are not disturb'd not molested and tormented by him as Gods children be who can have no rest in the world by reason of him and sinne which is his creature when any rest they take 't is in him whose dwelling is farre above this unworthie station Strangers can hardly live in a strange Land such is the opposition they have from sundrie causes Souldiers of Jesus Christ endure hardship whilest in the Church Militant adde to this the sufferings of others who is weake and 2 Tim. 2. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 29. they are not offended and they burne not afflicted and their bowells yerne not stirre not certainely there 's a sweet nearnesse and blessed dearnesse of affections betwixt united members of Christ's bodie mysticall for their affections doe all runne in one and the same veine a veine of 3 Ep. Ioh 1. 7. truth as those who love in truth knowing truth and for the truths sake When God brought evill on Iâ—m 3. 1. to 25. the Church Jeremiah cries out I am the man that have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath I am brought into darknes he ha's turn'd his hand against me he ha's broken my bones coÌ„pass'd me with gall travel made my chaine heavie ha's shut out my prayer as for the wormwood the gal my soule ha's them still in remembrance with many expressions of like importance And Paul was but one Member of the Church yet there came upon him dayly 2 Cor. 11. 23. the care of all the Churches he bare their burthen as well as his owne and so fulfill'd the Law of Christ The like to Paul is the case of some now Some one Christian takes care for all the Churches surely then these acts so strange to the world must needs prove Saints to be strangers here But whence is it and why do's God serve his sonnes and daughters thus put them into a strange Land Let them live for a time so farre from home whence is it he puts them into the hands of this world which is so unkind a nurse to them and whatsoever else is his we 'l shew you whence 't is that so kind a father puts his children into such an unkind world First that they may see the vast difference which is betwixt earth and Heaven unsanctified ones see no difference betwixt the one and the other all 's alike to them could they live below and know no wants not meet with changes have their hearts desire they would seeke no other Heaven bee content to live below and not above the world for Christ's unsavourie and verie fulsome to such full hearts selfe-sufficient ones who barre out the sufficiences of Christ keepe at a distance from him sensuall selfe-content with seen things and seeing is beleeving